by Martin McDonagh

Produced with UMKC Theatre

Directed by Joseph Price

October 19-November 11, 2007
PREVIEWS October 17 & 18

Featuring Darren Kennedy, Theodore Swetz, David Graham Jones, Bruce Roach,

Patrick DuLaney, Anthony Vaughn Merchant, T.J. Chasteen and Elana Kepner

Talk back performances October 23, 28 & 30

Meet someone before the show to talk with after.

     LGBT Night October 25

6:30 Drinks $5

7:30 Show Regular Priced Ticket

Call for reservations.

“Mad Padraic”, deemed too reckless for the Irish Republican Army, has only one real friend in the world--a scraggly black feline lovingly called Wee Thomas. In Martin McDonagh’s latest comedy noir, friends and family become foes and the only person you can trust is pointing a gun at your head.

     

The Reviews are in...

 

Kansas City Star--Posted on Mon., Oct. 22, 2007
‘Lieutenant of Inishmore’ gets a salute despite a lack of blood  (May require registration)

By ROBERT TRUSSELL 

 

Pitch-- Posted Thur., Oct. 25, 2007

A Vote for Gore
It’s a week devoted to the appreciation of blood and zombies.
By ALAN SCHERSTUHL
 

UNEWS-(UMKC's Campus Newspaper)-Posted Oct. 22, 2007

Dead Irish cat, live Irish terrorists on stage in dark comedy
By LAURA KATZER

 

Other Press...

 

Kansas City Star--Posted on Sat., Oct. 20, 2007
Seeing ‘Lieutenant of Inishmore’ will be a night to dismember  (May require registration)

By ROBERT TRUSSELL 

 

KCUR--Posted on  Fri., Oct 19, 2007

Technical Wizardry Behind Unicorn's Inishmore  (Click to hear story)
Theater audiences tend to forget that the play they're seeing is a group effort, the result of just as much work behind the scenes as there is on stage.
by Steve Walker

 

InfoZine--Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2007 :: infoZine Staff
 Unicorn Partners with UMKC Theatre on Irish Comedy Noir

(click for complete story)

 

Kansas City Star--Posted on Sat., Aug. 25, 2007
KC stages will have their fill of gore among the dramas and comedies  (May require registration)

By ROBERT TRUSSELL 

 

Kansas City Star--Posted on Sat., Aug. 25, 2007
THEATER | Top five  (May require registration)

By ROBERT TRUSSELL 

 

Kansas City Star--Posted on Wed., Aug. 8, 2007
Unicorn Season Begins, Cast Named for Next Show  (May require registration)

By ROBERT TRUSSELL 

Martin McDonagh  has seen his stage plays receive numerous awards and wide critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic. Born and raised in South London of Irish-born parents, Mr. McDonagh became familiar with the Connemara region of County Galway, the setting for most of his plays, during annual visits to relatives. His unsolicited script, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, had its world premiere in the new Town Hall Theatre, Galway, Ireland in February 1996 in a Druid Theatre/Royal Court Theatre co-production before playing the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs in March of that year. Reviews were exceptional across the board and houses were full to capacity. Beauty Queen was revived, amid a blaze of publicity, in October of the same year at the Royal Court’s main house at the West End venue The Duke of York’s Theatre, following an Irish tour and reviewed again with enormous enthusiasm. The Beauty Queen of Leenane, the first play in Mr. McDonagh’s Leenane Trilogy, was revived for a second time, together with the premieres of the second and third plays in the series, A Skull in Connemara and The Lonesome West, by Druid/Royal Court in Ireland and London in June to September 1997. After the The Beauty Queen of Leenane opened on Broadway, it received the 1998 Drama Desk Award, the 1998 Drama League Award and six Tony Award nominations including the nomination for Best Play. Mr. McDonagh’s plays have been sold in 28 countries in 21 languages.

Joseph Price (Director) is the Associate Head of Acting at the MFA Professional Actor Training Program at the University of Missouri, Kansas City.  He's always honored to work at the Unicorn where he directed Painted Alice, Bright Ideas, Blue/Orange , Fuddy Meers and The Shape of Things.  In the past three years, he has directed two Martin McDonagh plays: The Cripple of Inishmaan and The Pillowman.  At the UMKC he has directed numerous productions including:  Present Laugher, Boesman and Lena, Tape, The Importance of Being Earnest, Polaroid Stories, Mad Forest and The Circus Show.   Acting credits include:  Death of a Salesman (Riverside Theatre), Winter's Tale (KC Rep), Indian Ink (KC Rep) and the CBS series Dangerous Curves.

Darren Kennedy (Padriac)  is thrilled to make his first appearance at the Unicorn Theatre in "Inishmore."   Darren was born and raised in Colorado, spent time in Chicago doing theatre and commercial work, and recently relocated from Los Angeles working in theatre, film and television.  TV credits include CSI, Without A Trace, Just Shoot Me, Gilmore Girls, Passions and a recurring role on General Hospital as Dr. O'Donnell.  Film credits include Breakdown and the recently released Oranges.  Theatre credits include Once in a Lifetime, Welcome to the Moon with Theatre Neo in LA and most recently Busybody at the New Theatre with Jamie Farr.  Darren would like to thank Cynthia Levin and Joe Price for this amazing opportunity.  Darren would also like to thank his loving family for all their unwavering support and most of all his wife Mary.

 

 

Theodore Swetz (Donny) began his career with the NY Shakespeare Festival performing in Central Park and Lincoln Center.  For ten years, as a founding member of the “Tony” nominated American Players Theatre, Ted acted, directed and served as Associate Artistic Director.  He has had a nationally recognized acting and directing career and Ted’s acting credits at The KC Rep are numerous and include Max in LAUGHTER ON THE 23^RD FLOOR, Argan in THE IMAGINARY INVALID and Gloucester in KING LEAR. Audiences at the Unicorn have experienced his work as a director for MOJO, ALL IN THE TIMING, SIDEMAN and last season’s acclaimed production of RABBIT HOLE, as well as TALLEY’S FOLLY for Actor’s Theater of KC and FERDINAND THE BULL at the Coterie.  For years he has celebrated a wonderful artistic relationship with Cynthia Levine and now is profoundly happy to be one of her actors.  Ted currently serves the UMKC Department of Theatre as the Patricia McIlrath Endowed Professor of Acting.

 

David Graham Jones (Davey) is a recent graduate of the University of Missouri-Kansas City where he received his MFA in acting.  He’s been seen in numerous productions at UMKC including Three Sisters, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Maid’s Tragedy, The Trial, Black Snow, and Twelfth Night.  For the Kansas City Actors Theatre, he played Billy in their inaugural production of The Cripple of Inishmaan, and played Timmy in Talley & Son and Jed in 5^th of July in their production of  Lanford Wilson’s Talley Trilogy.   He holds a BFA from the University of Michigan, where he acted in over twenty productions including Proof, The Grapes of Wrath, Philadelphia, Here I Come, and the title roles in Hamlet and The Imaginary Invalid.

 

 

Bruce Roach's (Christy) work as an actor, director and educator has taken him across the U.S. and abroad. Kansas City audiences may remember his many appearances at the Rep as well as his recent work with the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival in Much Ado About Nothing, King Henry VMUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, KING HENRY V and ROMEO AND JULIET. He just finished directing the New York premiere of VIRTUOSA for the New York Musical Theatre Festival. Bruce made his Unicorn debut last season in ORSON'S SHADOW and is delighted to be back to make this hilarious journey to the dark side.

 

 

Patrick DuLaney (Brendan) is thrilled to be making is Unicorn debut!  Patrick is a second-year MFA acting candidate at UMKC, originally from Phoenix, Arizona.  He recently completed a run of Oklahoma! at The New Theatre Restaurant, playing Jud.  Other Kansas City credits include Garry in Present Laughter and DJ in The Secret Lives of Losers for UMKC, and Mitch in A Streetcar Named Desire for MET.  Favorite projects include the title roles in Macbeth and Floyd Collins, The Choragos in Antigone, Jerry in Zoo Story, Sir Andrew Aguecheek in 12th Night, and Smudge, Sparky and Jinx in multiple productions of Forever Plaid. 

 

 

Anthony Vaughn Merchant (Joey) is a resent graduate of CSU Stanislaus, where he received his Bachelors degree with an Acting concentration. He has performed in a number of shows including: Taming of the Shrew Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice and most recently the Kansas City Repertory Theatre’s production of King Lear.  Anthony is not strictly a classical actor however; he has also performed in Fool for Love, The Mikado, and Extremities and sang with Carol Channing in her Salute to the Arts.

 

 

TJ Chasteen (James) is excited to make his Unicorn debut. He is a second year actor in UMKC’s Professional Actor Training Program where he has been seen in The Secret Lives of Losers and Present Laughter.  He graduated from Sam Houston State University with a BFA in Theatre where he was seen as Hal in Proof, Darrell in The Distance From Here, and Cleonte in Tartuffe among other roles. He recently played Greed and Pride in One Night Stand’s production of Sin.

 

 

Elana Kepner  (Mairead) is in her second year of the UMKC MFA Acting program where she was seen in Present Laughter. Last season, she understudied for Kansas City Repertory Theatre’s productions of King Lear and The Syringa Tree.  Elana hails from the San Francisco Bay Area where she appeared with Shakespeare Santa Cruz, the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, Upon These Boards and Shakespeare at Stinson. In the Bay Area, she played the title role in the US Premier of Ariel for Wilde Irish Productions and Rosalind for the Valley Shakespeare Festival’s As You Like It.  Elana has also worked in Italy with Teatro del Vicolo and Shakespeare a Firenze.  Thanks to Joe for this awesome opportunity and thanks to Mom and Dad for unconditional love.

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Box Office Hours:

Monday-Friday 10-5pm

Saturday 12-4pm (During the run of the show)

 

 Unicorn Theatre offers $5.00 off for senior citizens and full-time students (with valid I.D.). Group rates are available, and students with valid I.D. can purchase Rush Tickets for $7.00 five minutes before curtain (based on availability)

SPECIAL THANKS
to those who generously donated their time, talents and services to this production:

The Kansas City Star

Financial assistance has been provided by Missouri Arts Council, a state agency.